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    Need suggestions for cheap small cameras for owl house and squirrel house...

    I tried the Tapo C100 and returned it because I think (now) I really want something where I can interface directly with the camera's GUI instead of having to use an app, as with the Tapo cameras. This is what I was trying to get away with my older Ezviz cameras; needing an app to make changes is...
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    Need suggestions for cheap small cameras for owl house and squirrel house...

    Thanks for that write up, but I've read/re-read it and trying to understand why it's necessary to set up a TAPO account as part of the process to get it working with Blue Iris?
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    Need suggestions for cheap small cameras for owl house and squirrel house...

    I need to replace two of my EzViz CS-CV200 cameras in my owl house and squirrel shack. I do like them because they are small and have magnetic bottoms but you must use an Windows or android app to manage them. They're not ONVIF. I would like to replace them with similar small ONVIF compatible...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    When I use a browser window to login to the camera's GUI, it takes about 8 seconds for the login screen to even appear. When I enter my login info it takes anywhere from 10-15 seconds to see my initial screen. If I use the camera's gui to move to a preset or move the camera with the direction...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    ugggh. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that. But, I guess I could get my laptop and connect directly with that and the power supply that came with the camera?
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    No, it's under the eve of my house and this issue happens anytime, day or night.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Yes, it tracks fine, immediately when something crosses a tripwire for example. When I use PTZ presets manually some of them may take 5 seconds, some of them 11+ seconds and it's not always the same presets.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Actually I just turned it on very recently, in the last few days, right after I had to set everything back up from scratch. So this issue has been going on for 6-9+ months and was progressively getting to the point where it became unavoidably noticeable. The other day, as a test, I turned off...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I actually bumped that up yesterday late afternoon to 12188 or something like that. Played with the camera for a bit but didn't see to make a difference in my case. Now this morning when I'm trying to login, my camera takes upward of a minute to get to the first screen after L & P which is a...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I'll give that a try.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Yes, I have similar settings and recording to a SD Card 256g Samsung Pro Plus, U3, V30, 4K (read 180mbs/write 130mbs) I have 4 IVS rules I'm not recording 24/7 to SD card, event driven only. see attached for settings.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    No. I never have. It's my understanding you do one or the other but not both.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Update: I have reset the camera (using the button by the SD card) twice. I was unable to restore the last backup I made before the Factory Reset, it gave me an error. So I had to set the entire camera back up again from the very beginning including IVS and tracking. Initially, after setting up...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Update: I'm in the process of factory resetting the camera. Already in third hour of starting to get things set back up. The configuration file I saved right before I reset, of course, wouldn't restore (failure?) so I'm setting everything back up. Real PITA but there are worse things in life...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I don't understand what you mean in the first part "factory terminated cable". Regarding hops, from the Windows pc, the ethernet goes directly to the managed poe switch, then from the same switch a cat 6e cable to the camera.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I was afraid I'd have to FR and set up from scratch but maybe I can do a FR and try restoring first. Just hate setting everything back up, it took me a long time to get it right where AI stuff worked well. bleh :)
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    OK, so moving the camera from my managed switch was a fairly recent troubleshooting approach I did about 4 days ago. Prior to that I had the camera connected to my managed switch with priority set on that port. I thought moving it to my router would be more 'direct' but I understand your...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Normally I'd agree with a chokepoint or issue with LAN speed as a possibility, but I'm using a pretty high powered router (AX6000) and this particular camera is connected directly to the router. I reboot my router automatically weekly and when I test my google fiber speeds from various ports on...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Good thought, but yes I did already have that set to that.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Yes, I've actually done that several time during the past few weeks when I was spending more time trying to figure out the solution.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I think I'd agree with you. but then again, I didn't remember making any significant config changes to that camera or making the connection of the PTZ delay if I did make any changes. Nothing comes to mind.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    That appears to be my case. This cam is pointed toward the street in front of my house (50'). A person walking, running by, it quickly tracks them. Same thing with a car that is going normal speed but of course a fast car it doesn't have time to react and track them effectively but it still...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Glad you mentioned tracking. It seems to track well with no issues or delays. My issue just seems to be with manually using the PTZ or PTZ presets.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Oh I didn't include the model (SD4A425DB-HNY) because I thought this thread was exclusive to that model. Sorry.
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I've noticed, over the past few months, that the PTZ is extremely laggy. It typically takes (in BI) 5-6 second before the camera starts moving when I manually use PTZ. When I click on a BI preset, it can take up to 20 seconds to move to that preset. If I use the camera's GUI and click on a...
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    Dahua 42212 TNI auto tracking in BI?

    Trying to get my 42212TNI camera to use the auto tracking in BI but no luck. I do use it with another Dahua model but not this one so far. I've turned off the cameras Motion Detect & IVS (temporarily) and let BI have sole control of the camera for testing this. I know BI auto tracking is still...
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    BI settings backup and restore

    It turns out, for me, it was a combination of restoring the settings and then restoring the cameras branch of the registry that got things back to normal. I occasionally export the cameras branch when I make a lot of changes to the cameras. I'm back up but still wondering what is the best method.
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    BI settings backup and restore

    I had a big enough issue with my dedicated Blue Iris (windows 11) computer that I had to restore an image from late 2022. I backed up my BI settings to a safe location before I did the image restore for the hard drive. After the restore I launched BI, updated to current stable version, then did...
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    IPC-Color4K-t180 (dual camera) video settings help

    I actually 'fixed' my issue by restoring a backup I made directly from the camera's GUI about 5 months ago. I don't see anything obvious in the settings or why it works now but I guess I must have changed something (inadvertently) from the last backup.
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    T180 trigger not working well at night

    No, all 3 cameras are using their own AI that I set up to trigger BI to record. BI does not have any triggering set up and is only passively recording when the camera sends the ONVIF trigger event. I purposely set up these Dahuas because, in this case, I had better luck with the Dahua's...
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